Surprise performances and unforeseen effects are expected every weekend in the wild world of school football. Even if everyone knows they’re coming, it’s hard to guess when and where they’ll happen.
USA TODAY Sports College team – Jace Evans, Paul Myerberg, Brent Schrotenboer, Erick Smith, Eddie Timanus and Dan Wolken – weighs on ambitious predictions for week 11 of the season:
Jace Evans
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s warmth will get even warmer when the Wolverines lose to a Wisconsin team that hasn’t played for 3 weeks due to a COVID-19 outbreak. There are still a lot of unknowns with the Badgers at this point, especially Con As for quarterback Graham Mertz’s prestige, what we do know is this: Wisconsin was in its first game of the season, while Michigan hasn’t won since its first game and looked worse and worse each week. doing nothing particularly well, and it doesn’t bode well opposing one of the most consistent systems in the country.
Paul myerberg
The state of Michigan stopped the Indiana racing game and won the ball loss war to defeat the Hoosiers No. 10. Slowing down the ground game would probably not be an exaggeration, as UI averages only 2. 6 meters consistent with the attempt. (In 2. 2, the Spartans Force Defense Mistakes is a little harder: Indiana only has two ball losses in 3 games and the biggest stretch may also be that the state of Michigan does not spin the ball on itself, as the Spartans have seven gifts wasting against Rutgers and three more in last weekend’s 49-7 loss to Iowa. But because they opposed Michigan, the Spartans are able to exceed pre-game expectations.
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Brent Schrotenboer
It’s almost too simple and apparent to see this as a trap game: the No. 2 Notre Dame plays at Unranked Boston College a week after getting rid of the No. 1 Clemson at home in two extra times. But the fact is, it’s a cheating game. It is also a possibility that Quarterback Phil Jurkovec of Boston College will show his former team what they gave him in the past serving as a replacement for the current Notre Dame starter, Ian Book. Boston College broke Notre Dame’s seven-game winning streak. in the Holy War to review the playoff landscape.
Erick Smith
The first weekend of the Pac-12 season was a good fortune for Oregon and Southern California, the respective favorites in the North and South divisions. They both won at home, and the Trojans needed an overdue comeback to beat Arizona State.
Now they are on their way to tough fights. Oregon faces Washington state, which eliminated Oregon in its first game after replacing Mike Leach. Southern Cal travels to Arizona with the Wildcats, who open their season after missing last week’s game against Utah due to the COVID-19 upheavals affecting the Utes.
Expect the two favorites to fight and a commotion is not out of place given the unpredictable nature of school football this season.
Eddie Timanus
Indiana is a state of basketball, isn’t it?” Hoosiers” is still considered one of the sports films of all time. Well, right now, the grill is the king in Hoosier state.
Of course, Notre Dame has been synonymous with football for many decades, but there is no denying that Saturday night’s triumph over Clemson was the biggest victory the Fighting Irish have noticed in some time. Then there’s Indiana, the hoosiers themselves, who spend 3-0 on the Big Ten and enjoy unprecedented heights in the polls. Which brings us to Purdue. The Boilermakers are quietly 2-0 themselves, their chance to beat Wisconsin had to be canceled due to the Badgers’ COVID-19 issues.
So now Purdue has a chance on some other ranked team. Okay, so a victory opposed to Northwestern wouldn’t resonate as much as beating, say, Clemson, Penn State or Michigan. But the Wildcats are 3-0 and ranked 23rd in the Amway coaching poll. This would be Purdue’s most productive result to date, if boilermakers can achieve it.
Then this is going to happen?The total state is on a good run, even if it’s not in hardwood.
Dan Wolken
Tulane had a pretty tough season, wasting a few games early, during which he had a big lead and faltered in the end, but it turns out the green wave has been turning the corner in recent weeks, setting them up for a stir. opposed to the army this weekend. The Army is probably a little over the top at 6-1 right now when you say the most productive team they’ve beaten is Texas-San Antonio. Tulane is surely one step ahead of this quality of opponent, and it’s worth remembering that the Green Wave won 42-33 at West Point last season. That will be the day Tulane goes over 0. 500.